2014 European Touring Car Cup
# 2014 European Touring Car Cup

The 2014 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the tenth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It consisted of five events in France, Slovakia, Austria, Belgium and Italy. The championship was split into three categories: Super 2000 for TC2 Turbo and TC2 machinery, Super 1600, and the Single-Make Trophy for cars such as the SEAT León Supercopa.

In the Super 2000 class, TC2 Turbo honours were taken by Nikolay Karamyshev, who won six of the season's races. He won the championship by 10 points ahead of Maťo Homola, while Igor Skuz finished in 3rd position, taking 2 victories. Mikhail Grachev was the only other driver to take a class victory, at the Slovakia Ring. For normally-aspirated cars, the TC2 class saw Petr Fulín take the honours; he won seven races and finished the other three races on the podium. He finished 44 points ahead of his nearest challenger Michal Matějovský, who took a win at the Salzburgring. Third place in class was taken by Peter Rikli; other race victories were taken by Christian Fischer and Norbert Kiss, the latter taking an overall win at the Slovakia Ring.

In the Super 1600 class, six successive victories for Gilles Bruckner saw him overhaul Ulrike Krafft for class honours, despite missing the opening round of the season at Le Castellet. Krafft won the other four races during the season, before a scoreless round at Spa-Francorchamps stunted her progress for the title. With five second-place finishes, Christian Kranenberg finished in third place. Dmitry Bragin won the Single-Makes Trophy, after achieving two victories as well as two second-place finishes at the double-points finale at Enna. Second place went to Andreas Pfister, who also won two races, while four-time race winner Aku Pellinen finished in third place. The only other driver to take a class win was Norbert Nagy, who won both races at Enna in a one-off appearance; he had previously competed in the TC2 class at the first two meetings.

## Teams and drivers

Super 2000 class :

| Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| TC2 Turbo |||||
| Homola Motorsport | BMW 320 TC | 2 | Maťo Homola | All |
| Campos Racing | Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T | 3 | Igor Skuz | All |
| Campos Racing | Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T | 12 | Nikolay Karamyshev | All |
| Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport | BMW 320 TC | 4 | Aytaç Biter | All |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320 TC | 6 | Franz Engstler | 1 |
| Proteam Racing | BMW 320 TC | 27 | Mikhail Grachev | 1–2 |
| TC2 |||||
| Rikli Motorsport | Honda Civic FD | 7 | Peter Rikli | All |
| Rikli Motorsport | Honda Civic FD | 10 | Andrina Gugger | All |
| MGS Racing Team | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 8 | Norbert Nagy | 1–2 |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si | 9 | Christian Fischer | All |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si | 11 | Plamen Kralev | 1–4 |
| ASK Sport Auto Vesnić | BMW 320si | 14 | Milovan Vesnić | 1–3 |
| Team Unicorse | Alfa Romeo 156 | 15 | Norbert Kiss | 1–2 |
| Team Unicorse | Alfa Romeo 156 | 25 | Filip Sládecka | 4 |
| Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport | BMW 320si | 16 | Kaan Önder | All |
| Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport | BMW 320si | 23 | Selçuk Salargil | 4 |
| Sládecka Motorsport | Alfa Romeo 156 | 18 | Samuel Sládecka | All |
| Krenek Motorsport | BMW 320si | 20 | Michal Matějovský | All |
| Krenek Motorsport | BMW 320si | 22 | Petr Fulín | All |
| Pro Motorsport | BMW 320i | 24 | Massimo Zanin | 4 |
| Pro Motorsport | BMW 320i | 26 | Filippo Maria Zanin | 4 |
| Super 1600 class |||||
| Team LuxMotor | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 32 | Gilles Bruckner | 1, 3–5 |
| Team LuxMotor | Ford Fiesta ST | 32 | Gilles Bruckner | 2 |
| Team LuxMotor | Ford Fiesta ST | 38 | Ben Lintgen | 4 |
| Ravenol Team | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 33 | Ulrike Krafft | All |
| Ravenol Team | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 34 | Patrick Wolf | 1–3 |
| Ravenol Team | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 35 | Christian Kranenberg | All |
| Ravenol Team | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 36 | Erwin Lukas | 1, 3–5 |
| Ravenol Team | Ford Fiesta 1.6 16V | 39 | Kseniya Niks | All |
| Single-makes Trophy |||||
| MGS Racing Team | SEAT León Supercopa | 8 | Norbert Nagy | 5 |
| ADAC Team Nordbayern EV | SEAT León Supercopa | 55 | Andreas Pfister | All |
| Aku Motorsport Team Niinivirta | SEAT León Supercopa | 56 | Aku Pellinen | 1–4 |
| SMP Racing Russian Bears | SEAT León Supercopa | 57 | Mikhail Maleev | All |
| SMP Racing Russian Bears | SEAT León Supercopa | 58 | Sergey Ryabov | All |
| SMP Racing Russian Bears | SEAT León Supercopa | 59 | Dmitry Bragin | All |
| SMP Racing Russian Bears | SEAT León Supercopa | 60 | Vladimir Nikolaev | All |
| Topcar Sport | SEAT León Supercopa | 66 | Ronny Jost | All |
| PCR Sport Club | SEAT León Supercopa | 69 | Urs Sonderegger | 1 |

## Race calendar and results

| Round | Round | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning TC2T | Winning TC2 | Winning S1600 | Winning SMT |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | R1 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 20 April | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Petr Fulín | Ulrike Krafft | Aku Pellinen |
| 1 | R2 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 20 April | | Nikolay Karamyshev | Igor Skuz | Petr Fulín | Ulrike Krafft | Aku Pellinen |
| 2 | R1 | Automotodróm Slovakia Ring | 11 May | Maťo Homola | Maťo Homola | Mikhail Grachev | Norbert Kiss | Ulrike Krafft | Andreas Pfister |
| 2 | R2 | Automotodróm Slovakia Ring | 11 May | | Maťo Homola | Maťo Homola | Petr Fulín | Ulrike Krafft | Andreas Pfister |
| 3 | R1 | Salzburgring | 25 May | Igor Skuz | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Michal Matějovský | Gilles Bruckner | Aku Pellinen |
| 3 | R2 | Salzburgring | 25 May | | Maťo Homola | Nikolay Karamyshev | Christian Fischer | Gilles Bruckner | Aku Pellinen |
| 4 | R1 | Spa-Francorchamps | 22 June | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Petr Fulín | Gilles Bruckner | Dmitry Bragin |
| 4 | R2 | Spa-Francorchamps | 22 June | | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Petr Fulín | Gilles Bruckner | Dmitry Bragin |
| 5 | R1 | Autodromo di Pergusa | 28 September | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Nikolay Karamyshev | Petr Fulín | Gilles Bruckner | Norbert Nagy |
| 5 | R2 | Autodromo di Pergusa | 28 September | | Maťo Homola | Igor Skuz | Petr Fulín | Gilles Bruckner | Norbert Nagy |

## Championship standings

### Super 2000 / Super 1600

| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | SVK | SVK | SAL | SAL | SPA | SPA | PER | PER | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TC2 Turbo |||||||||||||
| 1 | Nikolay Karamyshev | $1^1$ | 2 | $14^2$ | 8 | 1 | 1 | $1^1$ | 1 | $1^1$ | Ret | 103 |
| 2 | Maťo Homola | Ret | DNS | $9^1$ | 1 | $2^2$ | 2 | $2^2$ | 3 | $2^2$ | 2 | 93 |
| 3 | Igor Skuz | $3^2$ | 1 | $15^3$ | 5 | $Ret^1$ | 7 | $3^3$ | Ret | 4 | 1 | 79 |
| 4 | Aytaç Biter | 13 | 11 | Ret | DNS | $3^3$ | 5 | 25 | 9 | $Ret^3$ | 8 | 50 |
| 5 | Mikhail Grachev | Ret | 15 | 5 | 3 | | | | | | | 23 |
| 6 | Franz Engstler | $DNS^3$ | DNS | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| TC2 |||||||||||||
| 1 | Petr Fulín | $2^2$ | 3 | $2^2$ | 2 | $6^1$ | 4 | $4^1$ | 2 | $3^1$ | 3 | 128 |
| 2 | Michal Matějovský | $7^3$ | 16 | $3^3$ | 7 | $4^2$ | 6 | 7 | 5 | $5^2$ | 4 | 84 |
| 3 | Peter Rikli | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 50 |
| 4 | Samuel Sládecka | 5 | 7 | 18 | 9 | DNS | DNS | $5^2$ | Ret | Ret | 7 | 39 |
| 5 | Christian Fischer | Ret | 10 | 13 | DNS | $5^3$ | 3 | $22^3†$ | 17 | $NC^3$ | 9 | 38 |
| 6 | Kaan Önder | 16 | Ret | 8 | Ret | 7 | 8 | Ret | DNS | 7 | 12 | 31 |
| 7 | Norbert Kiss | $Ret^1$ | DNS | $1^1$ | 4 | | | | | | | 24 |
| 8 | Andrina Gugger | 8 | 14 | Ret | 13 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 22 |
| 9 | Filip Sládecka | | | | | | | 6 | 4 | | | 14 |
| 10 | Plamen Kralev | 14 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 24 | DNS | DNS | | | 14 |
| 11 | Norbert Nagy | 9 | 6 | 6 | Ret | | | | | | | 13 |
| 12 | Milovan Vesnić | 15 | DNS | Ret | DNS | 8 | 15 | | | | | 7 |
| 13 | Massimo Zanin | | | | | | | 14 | 12 | | | 5 |
| 14 | Selçuk Salargil | | | | | | | Ret | 18 | | | 1 |
| 15 | Filippo Maria Zanin | | | | | | | 21† | DNS | | | 1 |
| Super 1600 |||||||||||||
| 1 | Gilles Bruckner | DNS | DNS | $21^2$ | 20 | $18^2$ | 17 | $17^2$ | 19 | $15^2$ | 13 | 106 |
| 2 | Ulrike Krafft | $17^1$ | 17 | $20^1$ | 19 | $Ret^1$ | 18 | $Ret^1$ | DNS | $17^1$ | 15 | 90 |
| 3 | Christian Kranenberg | $18^2$ | 18 | 24 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 24 | 23 | $16^3$ | 14 | 84 |
| 4 | Erwin Lukas | 21 | 20 | | | 21 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 54 |
| 5 | Kseniya Niks | 20 | 21 | Ret | DNS | 20 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 45 |
| 6 | Patrick Wolf | $19^3$ | 19 | $23^3$ | 21 | $22^3$ | 20 | | | | | 36 |
| 7 | Ben Lintgen | | | | | | | $19^3$ | 22 | | | 12 |
| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | SVK | SVK | SAL | SAL | SPA | SPA | PER | PER | Pts |
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Red | Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |

### Single-makes Trophy

| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | SVK | SVK | SAL | SAL | SPA | SPA | PER | PER | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Dmitry Bragin | $Ret^1$ | Ret | $10^2$ | 11 | $Ret^2$ | 14 | $8^1$ | 6 | $9^2$ | 6 | 87 |
| 2 | Andreas Pfister | $Ret^2$ | DNS | $7^1$ | 10 | $12^3$ | 11 | $16^2$ | 10 | 10 | 18† | 75 |
| 3 | Aku Pellinen | $4^3$ | 4 | $17^3$ | 15 | $10^1$ | 10 | 20† | 13 | | | 60 |
| 4 | Ronny Jost | 11 | 9 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 23 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 59 |
| 5 | Sergey Ryabov | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 13 | $10^3$ | 11 | $13^3$ | Ret | 58 |
| 6 | Mikhail Maleev | 10 | 22† | 19 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 52 |
| 7 | Norbert Nagy | | | | | | | | | $8^1$ | 5 | 46 |
| 8 | Vladimir Nikolaev | Ret | 13 | 22† | 17 | 16 | Ret | 15 | 16 | 12 | Ret | 27 |
| — | Urs Sonderegger | DNS | DNS | | | | | | | | | 0 |
| Pos | Driver | LEC | LEC | SVK | SVK | SAL | SAL | SPA | SPA | PER | PER | Pts |
| Colour | Result |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Red | Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Nikolay Karamyshev had claimed the pole by setting the fastest time, ahead of team-mate Igor Skuz and Maťo Homola. Karamyshev eventually lost his pole position after his car was found to be underweight. Skuz was promoted to pole position.
